We know that ICE and GEO have no regard for human life. More people have died in ICE custody through May of 2020 than all of 2019. ICE uses harmful chemicals categorized as “pesticides” as response to COVID19, which give people detained nosebleeds, rashes and eye damage. Instead of moving to free them all, ICE and GEO want people sick and dying under their watch.
But as the conditions inside NWDC continue to worsen, those inside continue to build power and voice their demands.
Join us in highlighting different people who are detained inside the NWDC in Tacoma, WA, Puyallup land. Join us in writing/calling/tweeting for EVERY person who is bravely deciding to go public and share their stories with us, deciding to risk the retaliation inside for fighting for their rights. The time to #ShutDownNWDC and #FreeThemAll is now! The time to #DefundPolICE is now!
Immigration detention is always a public health crisis, detention under Covid-19 is a catastrophe.
Call/email/tweet! Find scripts and contact info here: www.tinyurl.com/FreeThemAllNWDC
#FreeSantiago
Meet Santiago. Santiago was wrongfully incarcerated for a crime he did not commit in 2013. While he was imprisoned, his legal status expired. In 2019, new evidence was presented and he was granted a second trial which was dismissed and Santiago was released. The same week, ICE arrested Santiago and caged him in the NWDC. Santiago has been incarcerated for 8 years.
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#FreeGloria
Meet Gloria. Gloria helps other people detained when they get sick and have no medical attention while she’s very sick herself. Gloria is anemic and she needs nutrients, but NWDC doesn’t provide a nutritious diet. People detained reported this week that portions are getting smaller and they eat mostly beans. People detained say they haven’t had a meal with vegetables or meat in a while. Gloria cleans the health clinic at NWDC for $1 a day. She sweeps the floor of a detention center clinic that can’t and won’t provide her or others detained with the health care they need. Gloria should be released from NWDC immediately.
Watch Gloria’s video.
Read Gloria’s letter.
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#FreeDaniel
Meet Daniel. If Daniel can write to Governor Jay Inslee from inside of the detention center than so can you!
“Dear Governor Inslee,
I want to write you in this critical time to let you know that racial injustice is happening in your very back yard here in Tacoma. My name is Daniel Lopez, and I am currently detained at the Northwest ICE Detention Center.”
Hear more from Daniel here and here.
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#FreeJulio
Meet Julio Enrique Benedicto. He is an elder and has U.S. Citizenship status since 1994. In 2016 he was picked up by ICE and has been detained ever since. This is UNLAWFUL IMPRISONMENT!
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#FreeTien
Meet Tien Ho. Tien has a 3 year old son that hasn’t seen her since he was two months old. Tien frequently suffers constipation but medical staff at the Northwest Detention Center only give her fiber supplements which don’t resolve the issue. Tien says that the greatest punishment she and other parents have endured is being separated from their children.
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